Monday, December 17, 2012

SPACE-AGE SANTA

William Shatner! Theremins! Daleks! Annoying child singers! Truly, this is what Christmas is all about, Charlie Brown.

If we must be subjected to Christmas music every year, at least let's make it bad/strange futuristic-y sci-fi songs. Space travel and Christmas - two things that have nothing to do with each other. So why are there so many songs about both? Maybe cuz kids love 'em both. Or because Santa's reindeer routine was a wormhole-like traveling thru space/time? Or cuz everyone gets sick of "White Christmas" after a while? Regardless, here are 24 mainly '50s/'60s songs collected over the years, stuffed into one handy stocking:

SPACE-AGE SANTA(Is this divshare business working?)Space-Age Santa (Zippyshare)These tunes are mostly off hopelessly obscure 45s, but I added artist info, if any01 Hal Bradley Orch wPatty Marie Jay - SpaceAge Santa Claus02 Zoot, Zoot, Zoot Here Comes Santa In His New Space Suit - Tiny Tim and Bruce Haack (as previously discussed)03 Introduction-Hooray For Santa Claus - Miton DeLugg (from the badfilm classic "Santa Claus Conquers The Martians)04 I Cloned Myself For Christmas - Neutron 60605 Good King Wenceslas - Douglas Leedy (from a Buchla - not Moog - album from the late '60s that's all pretty cool, but this is the stand-out track.) 06 The Go Go's - I'm Gonna Spend My Christmas With A Dalek (No, not those Go-Gos, this was a '60s British studio "group.")07 Outer Space Santa - Lawrence Welk's Little Band08 Santa and the Satellite - another proto-mashup from Buchanan & Goodman09 Northern Telecom - I Want An OC192 For Christmas 10 moog cookbook - santa claus is coming to town (time-traveling to the '90s for this nutty instro)11 Tim Dinkins - Santa's Rocket12 Take A Ride On Santa's Rocket - The Sounds Extraordinare13 Bobby Helms - Captain Santa Claus (Yep, the "Jingle Bell Rock" guy)14 Lothars - Oh Holy Night (great contemporary theremin group)15 barry gordon - Zoomah the Santa Claus from Mars16 The Servotron Evaluation of the Christmas Season17 Fountains of Wayne - I Want an Alien for Christmas (more actual not-old music! From their 2005 album "Out-Of-State Plates")18 a sonovox (a kind of '40s vocoder) version of "rudolph"19 troy hess - christmas on the moon (singing 6 year with thick hick accent - OUCH)20 William Shatner - Good King Wenceslas (hearing all the verses, recited in Captain Kirk's ponderous delivery, reminds me that I have no idea what the hell this song is about)21 Scene 1 Come Rejoicing-Its The Very Best Time of The Year-Make A Joyful Noise (from a kiddie xian xmas album I found in a thrift-shop called "Christmas 2001 A Space-Age Adventure"; I actually digitized the whole thing, but, believe me, you don't need to hear it)22 Christmas in the Stars (from the infamous "Star Wars Christmas" album; I also have this one on vinyl - featuring a young Jon Bon Jovi! - but you REALLY don't need to hear the whole thing)23 MIT computer 1962 carols24 Space Age Santa Claus - Gus de Wert Trio (Incredibly, a cover of track #1)Thanks to J-Unit 1!

Merry Christmas & thanks for this swell collection.I wasn't enjoying the new Christmas music this year. Too commercial.These are fun!The link works ok. Box.com is a good host & they just increased the file size allowed.